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Matthew Savage is a conceptual designer who worked up some ideas for the Matt Smith era of the show. Amazing stuff:

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Ooo, I love this one:

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I want to see this episode:

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It’s not clear if all of these were submitted to the production, but what is clear is that his ideas are fantastic. Check out Savage’s blog for more cool Doctor Who designs, including a reimagining of Omega and a steampunk Tardis interior for Tom Baker’s Doctor.

Via Kasterborous.

(If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)...

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French-born pianist and composer Laurant Courbier has won the second International Film Music Competition at the Zurich Film Festival.

Courbier received the Golden Eye prize for best international film music of 2013. The award comes with a prize of $11,000 (CHF10,000).

The other finalists were Aaron Kenny (Australia), Felipe Senna (Brazil), Jan Torkewitz (Germany) and Nathan Stornetta (Switzerland).

Entrants had written a score for Matthew Savage’s short film Reign of Death.

Savage was one the jurors, alongside singer and actor Carlos Leal, band leader Pepe Lienhard, filmmaker Rolf Lyssy, composer and musician Peter Scherer and composer Peter Thomas.

The award ceremony was part of a film music concert in Zurich.

The competition is a collaboration between the Zurich Film Festival and the Forum Filmmusik.

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Composer Ilan Eshkeri is to create the score for Matthew Vaughn's mutant prequel X-Men: First Class.

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